<div dir="ltr">Morning Mike,<div><br></div><div>I use my laptop for tethering and editing in Photoshop and Lightroom a lot and have never run into problems with the spec below.</div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 (Quad Core)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have to admit that it is a MacBook Pro Retina, but it has always done the job, and is now getting on for 7 years old, I've used it for everything, from running multiple VM's to recoding videos, it handles everything I throw at it, even now.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hope that helps a little bit.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Many thanks,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">--</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Nigel Smith<br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b>tel</b>: <a value="+448448581630" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">0844 858 1630</a> <b>mob</b>: <a value="+447793102082" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">07793 102 082</a><br><b>web</b>:<b> </b><a href="http://www.nigelsmith.co.uk/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.nigelsmith.co.uk</a></span></p></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 10:09, Devo Too via Bradford <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
Things have moved on significantly since I last attempted to spec a PC <br>
or laptop. Having looked on a couple of sites including <br>
<a href="http://pcspecialist.co.uk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">pcspecialist.co.uk</a> to try and "design" a laptop for my own use, then <br>
calling our very own David Carpenter (the only other Lugger I have a <br>
number for, lucky you lot!) to see if he could throw any light on the <br>
topic. Well, he tried.<br>
<br>
So two questions: I need a laptop to process photographs, so not high <br>
end gaming or streaming video spec but then, not a simple browsing and <br>
word processing box either. Would anybody please try to suggest which <br>
type of processor, e.g. how many cores and all that stuff, and which <br>
type of video card would do the job well without overkill, here on the list?<br>
<br>
Secondly, do you consider this a worthwhile discussion topic for a LUG <br>
meeting? My own thoughts are that it would be useful to have a general <br>
understanding in today's terms, without necessarily identifying <br>
competing manufacturers, which CPU in generic terms is designed for what <br>
set of uses, same for video cards and are there any other components <br>
which are critical to know about when deciding?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
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